How Do I Turn This Into This?

[NickD]

Can anybody tell me the stages I would need to go through to turn the before image into the after image?
Before
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wheathills/4091887281/in/set-72157622650280509/

After
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wheathills/4091887329/in/set-72157622650280509/

Cheers,

Nick

[iDad]

Select your chair or whatever> then select inverse> copy>delete>Paste>you now have separate layer of surroundings, play around with transparency >feather it >lighting filters help>so many ways You could try a tutorial that covers fading out

[jerryb]

hi,
i can give a rough idea on maybe they did that... and it not hard...

1. of course always make a duplicate layer
2. then select the sofa and put on a seperate layer.. with this image there was some cloning to be done ...
2a. i did a duplicate of the softwa layer and reduce the opacitiy of that layer..... primarily soften the hard shadow..
3. make another duplicate of the orginal and desaturate it
4. then create a new layer and fill in with the color you want...

at this pint my layer pallet from bottom to top,,,
duplicate sofa with very low opacity
sofa
fill layer with the color you want... in this case looks like beige...
orginal layer that desaturated
duplicate of orginal layer
orginal layer


6. with the fill layer active, then using a soft edge erase at low opacity ...
then i erased the areas i wanted to show thru...!!
7. now the person put in a very soft shadow and what i did there was use the burn tool , soft edge and low opacity just put in the light shadow. arond the softa

that basically how i replicated how he did it... there probably other ways and techniques to do it... maybe use a couple of layer masks or what ever but anyway that give an idea one way to do it... hope that enough to get you started..

Can anybody tell me the stages I would need to go through to turn the before image into the after image?
Before
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wheathills/4091887281/in/set-72157622650280509/

After
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wheathills/4091887329/in/set-72157622650280509/

Cheers,

Nick

[NickD]

IDad and JerryB,
thankyou for your replies.

Nick

[jerryb]

hi,
your quite welcome let us know how your doing with it... have good day

IDad and JerryB,
thankyou for your replies.

Nick